America-Israel Patent Law Blog

Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner

Category: PTAB

  • A Nice Way To Start The Day

    It's always nice to open up PAIR and see this: Would be nicer if the appeal hadn't been necessary in the first place. And if the examiner got dinged (or…

  • No Sovereign Immunity for YOU, St. Regis!

    On Friday a panel of the Federal Circuit (Judges Dyk, Moore and Reyna) ruled that sovereign immunity does not shield Indian Tribes from patent challenges via the inter partes review…

  • Are Assignments to the Iroquois the Antidote? Allergan’s Atypical Action

    Interesting news item from last week: according to Allergan’s web site, on September 8 Allergan and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe announced that Allergan had assigned several patents to the…

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I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.